Toronto 2011: Elizabeth Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley's More youthful Sister, On Journey to Oscar Contention (Video)

Elizabeth Olsen -- or "Lizzie," because the 22-year-old introduces herself in my experience before our interview in Toronto on Saturday -- appears like a star. It's not only metaphorically, for the reason that she's very beautiful, but literally, too, for the reason that she greatly resembles her older twin siblings, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Mary-Kate and Ashley happen to be legendary for the better area of the last quarter-century Lizzie, meanwhile, has handled to retain her anonymity and attend summer time camps, visit college, and live a comparatively normal existence. For better or worse, though, because of just a little movie known as Martha Marcy May Marlene, Lizzie's existence is going to change. Lizzie won the starring role in Sean Durkin's low-budget indie thriller this past year. It had been only the second film she'd ever done (another, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, can also be playing at the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival), but she did an admirable job inside it playing a woman who's attracted into after which goes out from the cult. It opened to great acclaim in the Sundance Film Festival in The month of january. Fox Searchlight, which bought Martha at Sundance, will release the film on October 21, and intends to keep its star within the public eye whenever possible within the coming days and several weeks. Their hope is the fact that, in line with the strong critical reaction to the film, the exposure may help Lizzie become among the youngest best actress Oscar nominees ever. During the period of my 16-minute conversation with Lizzie -- which you'll see in the whole by hitting the recording towards the top of this publish -- I had been greatly impressed with how composed, articulate, and completely pleasant she's. They are all characteristics that will assist her more than the lengthy, hard slog that's an honours season campaign. One of the subjects that people talked about: -- What it really was like becoming an adult within the Olsen family (apart from her siblings, her earliest brother is definitely an ambitious film writer her mother would be a professional ballet dancer and her father who's a high amateur golfer). -- What interested her like a kid ("I've, like, this masculine aesthetic... after i is at senior high school, I preferred to see Bukowski, and Palahniuk, and males who... talk about sex addicts and alcoholics"). -- How she got the part in Martha (she'd only been reading through scripts for six or seven several weeks when she received "the film using the M's" and was soon after that commuting between your upstate New You are able to teams of Peace and Martha). -- What she came upon on her performance (such as the true story of the girl that Durkin knows who suffered something such as what Olsen's character experiences). -- The chronological means by which Martha -- which jumps from a farm along with a lake house -- was shot. -- Her nude moments in Martha ("If this's necessary, it's necessary"). -- Oscar buzz ("It's crazy!"). -- And her family's a reaction to the film ("They haven't seen it... none of my loved ones has seen it. My father's gonna view it beside me tomorrow [Sunday], after which everybody else during my household is gonna view it in the premiere"). Toronto Worldwide Film Festival Ashley Olsen Mary-Kate Olsen Elizabeth Olsen